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effervescence · 17-12-2012, 11:02 AM

I think it's a cultural thing.
Coming from NZ I have a different view to the UK - I shoot rifles and many of my family own rifles for hunting and/or farming purposes.
However, we don't have this problem. Shootings like this don't happen, whereas they seriously seem to happen in the US every couple of years.
Therefore, it must be something wrong with Americans that they have no respect for firearms and just think it's acceptable to go totally crazy and shoot a load of stangers just because they are upset.
They are obviously not mature enough to handle such easy access to firearms - therefore I think the law must change to take away the right to bear arms, since the general public cannot be trusted with it.
I know I'm going to be attacked for this generalisation, but you can't have one rule for one and one rule for others and this kind of thing just cannot keep happening.

17-12-2012, 11:02 AM	#32
effervescence tired Join Date: Feb 2008 I am currently:	I think it's a cultural thing. Coming from NZ I have a different view to the UK - I shoot rifles and many of my family own rifles for hunting and/or farming purposes. However, we don't have this problem. Shootings like this don't happen, whereas they seriously seem to happen in the US every couple of years. Therefore, it must be something wrong with Americans that they have no respect for firearms and just think it's acceptable to go totally crazy and shoot a load of stangers just because they are upset. They are obviously not mature enough to handle such easy access to firearms - therefore I think the law must change to take away the right to bear arms, since the general public cannot be trusted with it. I know I'm going to be attacked for this generalisation, but you can't have one rule for one and one rule for others and this kind of thing just cannot keep happening.
effervescence tired Join Date: Feb 2008 I am currently:	Even as the stone of the fruit must break that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. There are only two ways in which one can live their life. One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is.